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PAPER CHEST PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-19.1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLIFFORD E. ALBERT, CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE U. S. PLAYING CARD COMPANY, OF NORWOOD, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

PAPER CHEST-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1919.

Application filed December 19, 1917. Serial No. 207,927.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLIFFORD E. ALBERT, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper Chest-Protectors, of which the following specification is a full disclosure.

My invention relates to a one-piece paper chest protector. The object of the invention is to provide a cheap, sanitary, warm, light and convenient one-piece paper chest pro tector, easily put on or taken off, non-bulky and non-muscle binding, providing the greatest warmth with minimum bulk and weight and cheap enough to be universally available in unlimited quantity.

The features of the invention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein:-

Figure 1 is a plan view.

Fig. 2 is a front view of the protector as worn.

Fig. 3 is a rear view.

The outline in fiat form is quite symmetrical and may be roughly likened to an elongated cross, with the central portion cut away.

From the neck opening 1, there extends in one direction the one-piece back covering 1, and straight away in the opposite direction, the one-piece chest portion 2, while on either side of this opening are the shoulder straps 3 and additional chest portions 7, 8. These chest portions have preferably the scored folding lines 5, 6, where they join the chest portion 2, for folding over the upper part of the chest.

That is, when the head is inserted through the neck opening, the chest portion 2 is laterally inverted, so that the upper margin of section 2 laps over the part 7 of the left strap 3, and part 8 of the opposite strap 3 laps over said margin of the chest cover 2,

thus covering the upper portion of the chest with three thicknesses of the paper, of which part 7 is innermost, the upper margin of chest part 2 is intermediate, and the part 8 is outermost, as shown in Fig. 2.

This three-ply overlap requires the peculiar outline of the neck opening shown, that is, the irregular outline in the front, or chest portion, running to the V-notch at the right hand side of Fig. 1, adjacent scored line 6. From this irregular outline of the neck opening, constituting the provision for the overlapping on the chest, it results that the opening around the neck, when the protector is properly put on, is substantially of collar-contour, and makes a snug and correct fitting inclosure around the neck.

- Having described my invention, I claim A one-piece paper chest protector, comprising a back, shoulder strap and chest covering portions, in one continuous sheet, having a medial neck opening, the chest and shoulder portions having scored folding lines, enabling the chest part to be laterally inverted when adjusting the protector to the body to make a three-ply overlap around and over the upper parts of the chest.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, as attested by the two subscribing witnesses.

CLIFFORD E. ALBERT.

Witnesses:

' MILDRED SMITH,

L. BECK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

